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Events

• 1571 (455 years ago) Miguel López de Legazpi conquers Manila for Spain, modern day capital of the Philippines.
• 1821 (205 years ago) Battle of Carabobo: Decisive battle in the war of independence of Venezuela from Spain.
• 1913 (113 years ago) Greece and Serbia annul their alliance with Bulgaria.
• 1932 (94 years ago) A bloodless revolution instigated by the People's Party ends the absolute power of King Prajadhipok of Siam (now Thailand).
• 1945 (81 years ago) The first Victory Day Parade takes place on Red Square in Moscow, Soviet Union, symbolizing the victory of the Soviet Union over Nazi Germany.
• 1960 (66 years ago) Venezuelan President Rómulo Betancourt is injured in an assassination attempt.
• 1995 (31 years ago) Rugby World Cup: South Africa defeats New Zealand and Nelson Mandela presents Francois Pienaar with the Webb Ellis Cup in an iconic post-apartheid moment.
• 2002 (24 years ago) The Igandu train disaster in Tanzania kills 281, the worst train accident in African history.

Births

• 1842 (184 years ago) Ambrose Bierce, American short story writer, essayist, and journalist (died 1914)
• 1883 (143 years ago) Victor Francis Hess, Austrian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1964)
• 1911 (115 years ago) Juan Manuel Fangio, Argentine race car driver (died 1995)
• 1911 (115 years ago) Ernesto Sabato, Argentine physicist and academic (died 2011)
• 1927 (99 years ago) Martin Lewis Perl, American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2014)
• 1941 (85 years ago) Julia Kristeva, Bulgarian-French psychoanalyst and author
• 1962 (64 years ago) Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexican politician
• 1987 (39 years ago) Lionel Messi, Argentine footballer

Deaths

• 1398 (628 years ago) Hongwu, Chinese emperor (born 1328)
• 1519 (507 years ago) Lucrezia Borgia, Italian wife of Alfonso I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara (born 1480)
• 1908 (118 years ago) Grover Cleveland, American lawyer and politician, 22nd and 24th President of the United States (born 1837)
• 1922 (104 years ago) Walther Rathenau, German businessman and politician, 7th German Minister for Foreign Affairs (born 1867)
• 1935 (91 years ago) Carlos Gardel, French-Argentine singer, composer and actor (born 1890)
• 1980 (46 years ago) V. V. Giri, Indian lawyer and politician, 4th President of India (born 1894)
• 2014 (12 years ago) Eli Wallach, American actor (born 1915)
• 2021 (5 years ago) Benigno Aquino III, 15th President of the Philippines (born 1960)

All 438 events, births and deaths of June 24